maybe it’s “writing scrolls”, but this meme just swapped in the word book… it’s just the idea that instead of actually going out and achieving something new, people are satisfied with being commentators on the important events of the past…
Even if that’s correct–which it would likely be, since a literal translation wouldn’t be meaningful to a modern audience–the corollary problem is that the very idea of writing stories that were stories, versus oral myths/religion, or more purely informative, didn’t really exist at this time. I don’t think that we even have evidence that theatrical entertainment existed 2800 BCE; the golden age of Greek plays was around 700 BCE, which is a solid 2000 years later than this was purported to have been written.
